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The health department offers two classes - Basic Life Support and Heartsaver CPR AED Training.
Team Instruction Approach - Aimee, Sharon and Marilyn
Instructors use a team instruction approach that offers an opportunity for participants to have a more hands-on training experience.
Basic Life Support (BLS)
The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compression, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science ad education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).
Cost: $65
Who should take this course?
The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.
What does this course teach?
Heartsaver CPR AED Training (Age 13 and above)
The Heartsaver CPR AED course trains participants to give CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).
Cost:$50
Who Should take this course?
The AHA Heartsaver CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.
What does this course teach?
Team Instruction Approach - Aimee, Sharon and Marilyn
Instructors use a team instruction approach that offers an opportunity for participants to have a more hands-on training experience.
Basic Life Support (BLS)
The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compression, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science ad education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).
Cost: $65
Who should take this course?
The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.
What does this course teach?
- High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
- The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
- Important early use of an AED
- Effective ventilations using a barriers device
- Importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
- Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants
Heartsaver CPR AED Training (Age 13 and above)
The Heartsaver CPR AED course trains participants to give CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).
Cost:$50
Who Should take this course?
The AHA Heartsaver CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.
What does this course teach?
- Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
- Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
- Recognize when someone needs CPR
- Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
- Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
- Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
- Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult
- Perform high-quality COR for an infant
- Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
- Demonstrate how to help a choking infant
For more information or to register for a class, contact Aimee at 217-357-2171 ext. 130 Monday-Thursday
BLS: https://cpr.heart.org/en/cpr-courses-and-kits/healthcare-professional/basic-life-support-bls-training
HeartSaver CPR: https://cpr.heart.org/en/cpr-courses-and-kits/heartsaver/heartsaver-cpr-aed-training
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Updated 5/5/2022